Nas Quotes about Hip Hop

You have to keep your vision clear, cause only a coward lives in fear.

If you scared to take chances, you'll never have the answers...

You lose money chasing women, never lose women chasing money...

Everything will eventually come to an end, So try to savor the moment, cause time flies, don't it? The beauty of life, you gotta make it last for the better, Cause nothin' lasts forever.

It's foul what this money could do, cash corrupts the loyal.

I pledge allegiance to the fair and balanced truth. Not the biased truth, Not the liest truth, But the highest truth.

Аll I need is one life, one try, one breath, I'm one man. What I stand for speaks for itself...they don't understand.

What you base your happiness around? Material, women, and large paper? That means you inferior, not major.

Whats up with your motto? Will you lead? Will you follow?

If I ruled the world Imagine that...

My duration's infinite, money-wise or physiology.

Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days... that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you. It speaks to your livelihood and it's not compromised. It's blunt. It's raw, straight off the street - from the beat to the voice to the words.

When I made Illmatic, I was trying to make the perfect album. It comes from the days of Wild Style. I was trying to make you experience my life. I wanted you to look at hip-hop differently. I wanted you to feel that hip-hop was changing and becoming something more real.

I'm over dey heads like a bulemic on a seesaw

I'm a firm believer that we all meet up in eternity Just hope the big man show me some courtesy.

Street's disciple, my raps are trifle. I shoot slugs from my brain just like a rifle.

The Chinamen built the railroad, the Indians saved the Pilgrim, And in return, the Pilgrim killed 'em. They call it it Thanksgiving, I call your holiday 'hell-day.'

That buck that bought a bottle could have struck the lotto

Hip-hop is such an amazing thing that kids still want to do it. They're not saying, "Ugh, that's the old people's music." No, they're younger than they've ever been that want to get into hip-hop music.

Vocabulary spills I'm ill.

Me and hip-hop have a relationship that has nothing to do with no other rapper, no matter where you from or nothing. Every n*gga got his own personal relationship with hip-hop and this is mine.

I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.

I rap for listeners, blunt heads, fly ladies and prisoners

To me, hip-hop's been dead for years. We all should know that. With that being said, then, the object of the game now is to make money off of exploiting it. That's what it's all about - get this money. That's basically what I'm saying.

Hip-hop artist, especially the older ones, are the ones who new hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new.